Book Review: Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State

Authors

  • Alfred de Zayas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2020.11.1.8355

Keywords:

Indigenous rights, genocide, cultural genocide, residential schools, Canadian history, law, self-determination, colonial history

Abstract

In this timely and morally necessary book, Tamara Starblanket gives particular attention to the forced transfer of Indigenous children to institutions whose raison d’être was to indoctrinate and “educate” them away from their culture and heritage so as to erase Indigenous memory and reprogram younger generations as “Canadians.” These institutions were notorious for death and disease, torture, forced starvation, forced labour, and sexual predation. The book’s structure is well-ordered, the argumentation compelling, but not in phoney “scholarly detachment,” instead in conscious compilation and analysis of the evidence, supported by the force of ethics and a commitment to truth and justice, regardless of zeitgeist and political correctness.

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Published

2020-03-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2020): Special Section: Indigenizing Entrepreneurship

Section

Book Review

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